The part of the plant you actually eat -- the vivid crimson stigmas -- produce saffron, the world's most coveted and expensive spice, and they come from just one plant: Crocus sativus. These stigmas ...

A flower named for Nottingham is getting a helping hand to flourish after years of decline. The Nottingham crocus is believed to have been introduced to the UK by medieval monks for either ...

Saffron Crocus, Crocus sativus If you do a search for the top ten most expensive spices, you’ll find a varied list. However there is one spice that is always at the top of that list: saffron. Saffron ...

The earliest crocus flowers to appear each spring are the pale lavender ones with flimsy petals, such as Crocus tommasinianus, which is robust despite its delicate appearance and naturalizes well ...

Purists used to deplore the big flowers on Dutch hybrid crocuses and selected varieties of the spring crocus, Crocus vernus.

Bees can sense—and learn from—the electric fields of flowers Can zero in on flowers with specific electrical field shapes.

Crocus flowers just barely push out through the snow in March 2020 in Pittsfield — a harbinger of spring we'll hopefully see again soon. Stephanie Zollshan ...

There's treasure buried in the deep soil of Sequim - crocus sativus bulbs. They grow the flower that makes the most expensive spice in the world - saffron.

Over the 15 years that she’s been a Field of Flowers customer, that has included family christenings, her mom’s 75th birthday and her two daughters’ weddings. “I just love it here,” she ...

The cheerful color of saffron crocus graces the garden from September to November. What's more, you can harvest your own saffron -- the world's costliest spice -- from the flowers.

Local women hold buckets filled with saffron crocus flowers after a good harvest in a field near the town of Torabt Heidarieh in Khorasan Razavi Province on November 1, 2015.